Good ol' Trifid in Hoo

[that_guy]

Instead of using the inbuilt script for mapping HO in to colour channels, I manually just mapped Hydrogen to red, Oxygen to blue and green without creating a synthetic channel. I think I prefer it this way since it makes it more natural looking. Clouds were intermittent and SGP for some reason didn't do a automatic meridian flip (I think because I was mucking about in EQMOD settings a few days ago) so I had limited Oiii subs to work with. One great thing about running SGP nowadays is that I can set it running and go to sleep and wake up in the morning with the camera warmed up, darks taken and scope parked ;)

15x 300sec Ha
10x 600sec Oiii
same number of darks for each of the filters, no flats.

Full res astrobin here (https://www.astrobin.com/full/350134/0/?nc=user)

[Atmos]

Very nice Tony :)
I do agree, you’ve picked a very natural narrowband colour scheme. Nice details and depth.

[raymo]

How can it be more natural looking when the blue[of which there is a lot if
all colours are given equal billing] is almost obliterated?
Not only the blue is almost obliterated, but the nebular material itself that is normally
blue, is also nearly obliterated, so you've lost some of the nebula.
raymo

[cometcatcher]

I quite like the HOO palette. Looks closest to RGB. You could do with some more OIII otherwise great shot.

[that_guy]

When I mean natural looking, I mean the colour palette. Compared to the more yellow orange look of the traditional HOO with a synthetic green channel its more natural. The reason theres not much blue is because I don't have enough OIII data. The colour palette has nothing to do with losing nebulosity.

[raymo]

Fair enough. Regarding the nebulosity, the blue nebulosity is so tenuous
that without its colour it becomes very faint indeed. I look forward to seeing it with more OIII.
raymo

[rcheshire]

Quite apart from anything else, it is a nicely captured calibrated image.

[xelasnave]

I like it.
Well done.
Alex